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Think for a minute. You are all affiliates or product owners, or whatever. Have you ever noticed that Wikipedia is the most loved site in Google SERPs. Google has this twisted idea that they know better than anyone else what a user is looking for. I might want to buy a solar panel. I am in the market, but Google thinks what I really want is a bunch of "Green" bull@%#$ to make me feel better about my time on Earth. Screw Google! I want to buy a damn solar panel and the only results I get to actually buy a solar panel are from paid search results that have been so badly PPC-guru-ized that I can't find a decent place to buy a solar panel there either.

Google wants their top search results to fit into their Star Trek Federation utopian approach to dishing out SERPs. They don't want you to show up as a valid result. How could free enterprise possibly bring people the result they want? Nobody really wants to buy anything. UNLESS the merchant uses google checkout. Hmmmm, maybe that plays a role in SERPs. Google:"The more they spend with us, the higher the pagerank. If they use analytics so we can spy on their traffic, we'll give them a nudge in pagerank."

I can guarantee this. Pagerank has far less to do with SERPs than you think. If you spend all your time running around chasing the PR grail, then you won't cloud up Google's utopian SERPs. I have a couple of sites with PR 0 and I am getting #1 SERPs in HIGHLY competitive markets. (No I won't tell you which sites.)

I love these guys that get on these forums and say, "Nofollow is worthless. Anyone messing with nofollow is wasting their time." Then with a little digging, you find their sites and they are loaded with nofollow.

Haven't you realized the "gurus" are misdirecting you so you don't encroach on their income? You pay money to be lied to so you don't infringe on the guru's niche. HA!

I know 50 of you are going to run out and search for solar panels and tell me your results don't reflect my scenario, but please remember it was an example. I don't want to waste my day looking for examples. I have better things to do.

IM doesn't really stand for Internet Marketing, it stands for Internet Misinformation. "If you can't succeed in the real world, you teach." "If you can't succeed in Internet Marketing, you become a guru."

If you ever actually pay money for these guru IM scams, make a real study of it. If they are showing you sites where they have great SERPs, study what they are saying, but also study THEIR site and see if there is something else lurking between the lines of code and the BS in their ebooks that is creating their actual success. Also, don't count too much on the sites they show you. The ones they are REALLY making money with will never be shown in an ebook. If they do show you their real success, they are idiots and who would want to listen to them anyway?

Pay as much attention to what Matt Cutt's doesn't say as what he does say. He doesn't answer some of the questions because there is no way to really answer those questions without uncovering an exploitation Google is aware of, but they don't want you to know about it. Where he doesn't answer, spend a day or two digging around within those questions and you will find a way to exploit Google before they can address it. Exploit! Exploit! Exploit until Google fills the gap, then go write and ebook and continue to make money on the exploitation even after it is gone.